Main description:

Severe head injuries are a frequent occurrence in the life of every emergency care specialist, traumatologist, neurosurgeon, and rehabilitation specialist. For example, between 30,000 to 40,000 such injuries occur annually in Germany, while over 75,000 Americans die each year after suffering a severe head injury. Survival and long-term outcome depends to a great extent on timely and appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Thus, all physicians involved must be aware of the current management procedures, and this reference, -- based on the experience of international experts -- provides an up-to-date and practical guideline.

Contents:

1 Clinical Head Injury Trials.- 2 Pathophysiology of Brain Injury.- 3 The Morphology of Traumatic Head Injury: An Overview.- 4 Preclinical Emergency Management of Severe Brain Injuries and Polytraumata.- 5 Preclinical Treatment of Patients With Severe Brain Injuries.- 6 The Traumatic Carotid Cavernous Fistula: Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Therapy.- 7 Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury: An Overview.- 8 Cranial Fractures and Traumatic Hematomas.- 9 Panfacial Fractures.- 10 Cerebral Blood Flow, Hyperventilation, and Metabolism in Severe Head Injury.- 11 Management of Intracranial Hypertension in Pediatric Head Injury.- 12 Quality and Therapeutic Advances in Multimodality Neuromonitoring Following Head Injury.- 13 Monitoring of Cerebral Oxygenation in Traumatic Brain Injured Patients.- 14 Traumatic Lesions of Cranial Nerves in Head-Injured Patients.- 15 Neurological, Neurophysiological Syndromes and Cognitive Disorders in Brain-Injured Patients: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Advances.